Eulus."} LI. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.; 333 



membranous, stipules filiform, flowers axillary solitary or in very short racemes 

 or panicles, calyx unarmed, lobes acute or caudate, carpels many pubescent. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 8-11,000 ft., J. D. H., &c. 



A slender trailing species, nearly glabrous or with pubescent branches petioles 

 peduncles and nerves of the leaflets beneath, rarely above. Leaflets very mem- 

 branous, terminal 2 in., often rhomboid-ovate, contracted at the base ; lateral usually 

 not half the size, petiolate ; petiole slender, 1-2 in., with few prickles ; stipules entire 

 or divided. Flowers |- in. diam., peduncles and pedicels short. Calyx-tube nearly 

 glabrous ; lobes pubescent, sometimes produced and leafy, suberect in fruit. Petals 

 small, orbicular, red. Fruit globose; drupes many, pale red, pubescent; stone 

 minutely pitted. 



* Leaves silky beneath. 



10. R. iineatus, Reinw. in Blume JBijd. 1108; eglandular, prickles 0' 

 or few small scattered, leaflets 3 or 5 elliptic otlong or lanceolate cilia te-seri ate 

 caudate-acuminate, beneath with many straight nerves and dense silky silvery 

 tomentum, calyx-lobes ovate acuminate silky. Miquel FL Ind. Sat. i. part i. 

 378. R. pulcherrimus, Hook. Ic. PL t. 729-730. Rubus Sp., Clarke in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xv. 141. t 



SIKKIM HIMALAYAS, alt. 6-9,000 ft. DISTRIB. Java. 



A strong suberect herb ; branches softly pubescent, young silky ; prickles when 

 present straight. Leaflets 3 or 5, 4-5 by ^-2 in., subsessile, coriaceous, acuminate or 

 cuneate at the base, often doubly-serrate, upper surface glabrous ribbed, under 

 shining with 20-30 straight nerves on each side, one to every tooth; petiole 1^2 in., 

 pubescent ; stipules f-^ in., membranous, ovate-oblong, obtuse, entire, glabrate. 

 Flowers in axillary short heads and terminal elongate silvery panicles, -1 in. diam. ; 

 bracts large, concave, orbicular, membranous. Petals obovate, shorter than the calyx, 

 white. Drupes numerous, small, red, stone rugose, Very variable in the size of the 

 flowers and breadth of the leaflets. 



VAR. 1. angustifolia ; smaller, leaflets much narrower. 



VAR. 2. glabrior ; leaflets silky beneath on the nerves only. MISHMI, Griffith. 



20. R. Anderson!, Hook.f. ; glandular, unarmed, young shoots petioles 

 and inflorescence hispid with spreading gland-tipped hairs, leaflets 3 or 5 

 elliptic or elliptic-oblong caudate-acuminate ciliate-serrate, beneath with many 

 straight nerves and dense silvery silky tomentum, calyx-lobes triangular-lan- 

 ceolate caudate. JRubus Sp., Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 141. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 7-8000 ft., J. D. H., Anderson. 



Very similar in foliage to broad-leaved states of R. Iineatus, but at once dis- 

 tinguished by the almost setose purple gland-tipped spreading hairs, the long 

 caudate-acuminate calyx- lobes which are also setose, and flowers in terminal broad 

 panicles with long pedicels. It is a very rare plant ; I gathered it near Darjeeling, as 

 did Mr. C. B. Clarke, and on Sinchul. Dr. Anderson's specimens are stated to be 

 from Punkabarri in a hot region, but I suspect some error. 



SERIES III. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate. 

 * Stems slender creeping or prostrate. 



21. R. sax at ills, Linn. ; Boiss. Flor. Orient, ii. 691 ; eglandular, 

 glabrous or slightly pubescent, prickles few slender straight, leaflets 3 rhombic- 

 ovate somewhat lobed acutely doubly-toothed, calyx unarmed, lobes ovate- 

 lanceolate acute longer than the narrow petals, carpels few glabrous. 



"Western temperate Himalayas in the Tibetan region from KASHMIR to KUMAON, 

 alt. 10-11,000 ft. WESTERN TIBET, Dras, alt. 10,000 ft. DISTRIB. Caucasus and 

 westward to the Atlantic, Siberia, Dahuria. 



